9-letter words containing p, a, b
- bog paper — toilet paper
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
- bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
- bra strap — a strap for fastening a bra
- brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
- bump ball — a ball that bounces into the air after being hit directly into the ground by the batsman
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- c & b — caught and bowled (by)
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- comptable — countable
- crabapple — Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, Malus domestica).
- crampbark — a large deciduous shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the Caprifoliaceae family, native to Europe and eastern parts of North America
- cupbearer — an attendant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal household
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- deputable — able to be deputed
- dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drop bear — a mythical creature said to live in the outback; it resembles an oversized koala with sharp teeth and drops from trees to devour unwary passers-by
- droppable — Capable of being dropped (especially by an aircraft).
- ecophobia — Fear of one\u2019s home.
- embla pro — (messaging, tool) An IMAP-compliant electronic mail client from WinSoft Products Ltd. EMBLA Pro allows you to use an IMAP mail server in a true client/server network manner, once you've connected to the IMAP server, you can organise messages into folders on the server and you can view messages and any attached files at the server before deciding whether or not to download them to your local system. IMAP allows the user to select individual message attachments to be viewed and/or downloaded. You can delete files and messages from the server, move or copy them to the local computer or leave them for future retrieval. EMBLA Pro also supports the standard POP3 protocol. Both POP3 and IMAP2 run over E-SMTP. The IMAP Unix daemons can support specific environments, for example, Sun MailTool attachments. All flavours of Unix are catered for with a suite of binary mail daemons, eg: SunSoft Solaris, HP, IBM and SCO. EMBLA conforms to the SMTP, E-SMTP, MIME and IMAP Internet standards - RFC1590 (RFC1521), RFC1522, RFC1426, RFC1425, RFC1176, RFC0822, RFC0821 and the draft update of RFC1176.
- escapable — Able to be escaped or run from.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- expirable — capable of expiring or ending
- exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
- flappable — easily upset or confused, especially under stress.
- flipboard — a piece of office equipment consisting of a board to which a flip chart or some other pad can be attached
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- grab rope — a rope supported to afford a hold for a person walking up a gangplank, working aloft, etc.